The pitchforks are coming... for us plutocrats

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Post by Ex-California » Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:36 am

Martin Hash wrote:According to the Hash Dictionary: "socialism" is Group over individual. By that definition, Social Security would be socialism IF it came out of General tax revenues, but America's implementation is a pyramid scheme, so I don't know what it is?
This year was the first year I earned enough that SSN stopped being withdrawn from my paychecks. Now I don't know how to feel about that, because some people probably have the withdrawals stop in February or April or June. At first I think that why should they stop contributing, but then I remember that there's a maximum that you get back, and I like the extra cash in my pocket.

Regardless, someone my age probably isn't going to get jack shit back from all of those contributions anyway
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Post by Smitty-48 » Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:54 am

ssu wrote:Oh, the word police from the Leninist-land is still angry? Or what?
Nope, because there's a difference between the Finnish word police insisting that a de facto and de jure Communist dictatorship in China is "not Communist!" and me simply articulating what socialism is. You can call Social Security "socialism" if you wish, but that would be incorrect, however, when I call China a Communist dictatorship, that is correct.

Am I going to spend several pages insisting over and over that you may not call Social Security "socialism"? Nope, go right ahead.

Does it anger me that you spend pages insisting that I not call the Communist dictatorship in China what it is? Nope, but I still might tell you to go fuck your mother, quite serenely in fact.
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Post by jbird4049 » Sat Jan 21, 2017 1:08 am

Okeefenokee wrote:
jbird4049 wrote:
Okeefenokee wrote:
Like we're proles. :lol:

Instantaneous communication worldwide. Fucking Pharaohs could have only dreamed.
And the wealth disparity is on par with Pharonic Egypt
No the fuck it is not. Under the Pharaohs, there was no private property. There was no wealth disparity. The Pharaoh owned everything. Even the merchants, who traded as far as India, were simply agents of the Pharaoh. They didn't have a one percent, or a .1%. They had a one. The one. The fucking god king.

and even the one god king who owned every fucking thing in Egypt did not have the ability that you have. Pharaoh would have given you three pyramids to have what you have. Forget air conditioning, you have the fucking wheel. You are a king among the ages, and you're here pretending to be a prole. Get the fuck out of here with that.

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Post by C-Mag » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:19 am

California wrote:This article, written by a VC, is great and encompasses my exact economic theories. I wish more of his class and the politician class would see the light this way

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... 108014?o=0

Its a couple years old but I just found it

Just turned on the vintage media. At one of these womens marches a black male speaker was calling out the Democrat establishment. Said the Dem's need new leadership and they have to throw out all the current leaders.

Here's the thing about this election. Once the dust settles. The Lefties are gonna be pissed at Hillary and the DNC for cheating them in their primary. The Dem allies in the media are doing all they can to frame Trump as the enemy, to focus the hate so the Dems don't look inward. I think the Dem establishment will continue to hold on to their power in the Dem Party.
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Post by TheReal_ND » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:25 am

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Despite the colossal failure of the right, to stand together, the left will soon eat itself. They have become the party of the oppressed. I don't know how it will play out but I suggest we encourage POC to remove whitey from their party.

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Post by C-Mag » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:31 am

TheReal_ND wrote: Despite the colossal failure of the right, to stand together, the left will soon eat itself. They have become the party of the oppressed. I don't know how it will play out but I suggest we encourage POC to remove whitey from their party.
I see the Dems doubling down on failure every time. They are trapped in their own screwy philosophy. It's like SJW's, follow that to it's logical conclusion and you have a white women, saying she is a black man leading an all black organization.............. wait, that already happened.

The Dems and Progressives have just been doubling down on everything. They have attacked Trump for coming on 2 years with the same attacks and he just gets stronger. Even though they fail, get punked out all the time, they can't see it. They go to sleep at night and say, tomorrow, tomorrow these attacks will work.
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Post by TheReal_ND » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:35 am

Hmmm. Indeed.

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Post by C-Mag » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:46 am

I've come to the conclusion that Bernie Sanders was an accidental candidate and is disingenuous with all his Socialist crap. A lot of folks believe he was rolled out by the Dems in the early primary to bolster the far left support and then lose early to Hillary. I believe this too.

But I no longer believe Bernie is little more than a whore of a politician who found a niche and keeps up the same old song and dance, but he's really just getting rich off the system. Nuke, I think you have a word for guys like that.
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Post by TheReal_ND » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:54 am

Idk. I think he actually believed in something. But he's obviously a cuck and furthermore, Hilary did us a huge favor sinking his ship.
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Post by Speaker to Animals » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:55 am

C-Mag wrote:I've come to the conclusion that Bernie Sanders was an accidental candidate and is disingenuous with all his Socialist crap. A lot of folks believe he was rolled out by the Dems in the early primary to bolster the far left support and then lose early to Hillary. I believe this too.

But I no longer believe Bernie is little more than a whore of a politician who found a niche and keeps up the same old song and dance, but he's really just getting rich off the system. Nuke, I think you have a word for guys like that.

He was a scam candidate the entire time. I think he was in on the rigging of the democratic primaries.